WHT
join:2010-03-26
Rosston, TX
kudos:5 | Slow DSL Is Now uVerse Friend of mien in Oklahoma said he signed up for uVerse - in an area he knew AT&T didn't offer it.
Had him check his download speed - at 1.5 Mbps. Had him check the pairs used in his NID/DMARC box outside - only one pair used.
Appears that AT&T's differentiation of uVerse to be a high-speed, triple-play advertising concept...it's really now just another name for slow DSL. |
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 ilikemeI live in a van down by the river.Premium
join:2002-08-27
Denton, TX
kudos:1 | said by WHT:Friend of mien in Oklahoma said he signed up for uVerse - in an area he knew AT&T didn't offer it.
Had him check his download speed - at 1.5 Mbps. Had him check the pairs used in his NID/DMARC box outside - only one pair used.
Appears that AT&T's differentiation of uVerse to be a high-speed, triple-play advertising concept...it's really now just another name for slow DSL.
There are two different versions. VDSL and ADSL2+. Both can run over a single pair.
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 RadioDocYeah, like it matters.Premium,ExMod 2000-03
join:2000-05-11
La Grange, IL
kudos:2
 ·AT&T Midwest
| And...the ADSL+ version can't support POTS or video. It's just a way for them to get out from under some archaic regulations and labor contracts. But they still call it U-Verse and you have to deal with the same idiots to order it as the full-VDSL areas do. |
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have to concur with this. visited a friend in North Carolina and they were "sold" what was called by ATT "U-verse " which actually is their pitiful DSL offering and lied to about potential performance issues. Their Connection continually goes out (Way too far from the CO on 40+ year old Copper lines) and yet they say nothing is wrong. |
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WHT
join:2010-03-26
Rosston, TX
kudos:5 | reply to WHT
My point is....While we are used to thinking uVerse was a much faster product, AT&T has rebranded slow DSL as uVerse to hype up the uVerse footprint to give the illusion how just gosh dawn great the coverage is now (overnight). |
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